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FULL LEASED WIRE of the Associated Press THIRTY-TWO PAGES WAUSAU DAILY VOLUME XLVI, NUMBER 55 TWO SECTIONS WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1954 SEVEN CENTS Decision on Bricker Bill May Be Delayed land (Calif) said today the Bricker treaty-power amendment for 10 days or more. The ate pushed ahead with its seventh day of formal debate on the hotly disputed plan that would mean putting it off until the week starting Feb. 14, because there is an informal understanding there will be no important Senate business next week when Republican senators will be town to make manut Lincoln Day speeches. Knowland said he would try to get votes this week on all the important alternative proposals. Final passage of whatever is Egreed upon as a constitutional amendment would take a two- final Senate decision on the may have to be put off WASHINGTON -Senate Republican Leader Know- out Bricker's controversial "which clause" reading: "A treaty shall become effective as internal law in the United States only through legislation which would be valid in the absence of Eisenhower said this allow the states to repudiate some treaties, but Bricker denied he had any such intention or that it would result.

Admits Mailing Poison Candy TAMPA, Fla. (-The mystery of the poison candy sent to members of the First Baptist Church of Lake Wales was solved Wednesday with an admission from a 49- year-old housewife, wife of the church's Sunday School superintendent. About 20 persons became violently ill after eating the arsenictainted homemade fudge, but all escaped death. Commissioner Paul Pinkerton set bond at $2,500. Date of the trial is indefinite.

She was arrested on a warrant charging mailing poisonous matter last Dec. 8 with intent to kill or injure. Police Chief K. M. Mellick of Wales said Mrs.

Overton indicated she felt neglected socially by other members of the church. Spy Given Asylum Was Beria Protege TOKYO (P)-Lt. Col. Yuri today as Soviet Russia's chief ful protege of Lavrenti Beria, the Soviet secret police. Informed American sources said Rastovorov, who asked an AmeriCall Army intelligence unit for political asylum Jan.

24, was trained on the "Japan desk" of a special Soviet Foreign Office section under direct control of Beria's MVD organization. His conversion, long and delibcrately sought by crack U.S. Army operatives, is called by observers here the most brilliant piece of American intelligence work publicized since the start of the cold war--and a blow at Soviet espionage in a key Far Eastern area. Rastovorov, reported Wednesday to be cooperating with American agents at the big U.S. base on Okinawa, was described as a dashhandsome Soviet spy who moved easily in Tokyo social circles and who cultivated Americans.

Continually Shadowed It also was revealed that at the time of Beria's execution, Dec. 23, Rastovorov made contact with American Army agents who shadowed him continually and sounded them out on changing sides. Much as the Army wanted him, 1 moved cautiously until Rastovorov-apparently in panic at personally delivered orders to go home- called the agents on the telephone and asked them to protect him as a political refugee. The news apparently came as a shock to the defunct Russian mission of about 35 men still in Tokyo. Last week they filed an angry protest that Rastovorov had been kidnaped by the Americans.

This is a standard Soviet charge when one of their agents deserts. He dressed in clothes of Ameriican may have come from the Tokyo shoes, carried an American portable radio to the Tokyo Tennis Club and seemed interested in several non-Russian women. Became Convinced apparently associated ed with Americans SO much that, as an intelligent man, he could not believe all the Communist lies he had been educated on," the unofficial source said. "'He convinced that communism itself was a fraud." Rastovorov is believed to have been the No. 2 man in the Red mission here, but in direct of setting up the Red spy apparatus.

One of his main missions and that of his network was to report constantly on American ground force movements in Japan, especially in the northern island of Hokkaido that borders on Soviet Siberia. Air Force capabilities and troop movements to Korea also came under his jurisdiction. A. Rastovorov was revealed Red spy in Japan and a youthrecently executed chief of Dies at 111; Was State's Oldest VIROQUA, Wis. (-Little Mary Taylor, Wisconsin's oldest resident, died Wednesday at a hospital here at the age of 111 years.

Mrs. Taylor, who would have celebrated her 112th birthday anniversary next June 6, had been hospitalized for the first time in her long life since Jan. 23, after she had fallen and fractured a toe. The wiry little woman, who often described herself as "a mean mixture of Irish and Dutch" ancestry, had made her home for many years with a son, Homer, in the Vernon county village of Victory on the banks of the Mississippi River. One of her prime pastimes in her reclining years was watching river boats pass while seated at a big window in her son's home.

Concessions to Age Until she was 95, Mrs. Taylot bathed in snow in the winter and cold water in the summer. She was irked in her later years because she had to add warm water to her bath but admitted ruefully that "you have to make some concessions to age." Her key to long life, Mrs. Taylor said, was "peaceful living and adherence to the Golden Rule." A hip injury in recent years handicapped Mrs. Taylor slightly, forcing her to walk with the aid of a chair which she pushed in front of her.

The toe injury which hospitalized her last month came when she fell out of bed. Four Sons Survive Mrs. Taylor's husband, David, died in 1942. Surviving are four sons, Henry of Guilford, Birney of Rosedale, Earl of King City, and Homer with whom she lived, and three daughters, Mrs. Nellie Lovett of Mrs.

Mabel Bellingham of Idaho, and Mrs. Annie Hutson Rupert, Haywood, Iowa; 22 grandchildren, 40 great and eight great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday from the Methodist Church at De Soto, Wis. Handed Stiff Sentence On Negligence Count MILWAUKEE (P) Raymond Wells, 31, whose auto struck and killed a 62-year old man last fall, was sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 by Traffic Judge Frank Gregorski Wednesday.

Wells, who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide, testified he had two or three whiskies and a quart of beer prior to the accident. Administration Shows Concern Over Indochina WASHINGTON (P) The Eisenhower administration showed growing concern today over the situation in Indochina, where Communist-led rebels are pressing a new assault in a war that has dragged on for eight years. President Eisenhower told his news conference Wednesday he views the battle as critical in the sense that there is some lack of enthusiasm for it. Later he put out a clarifying statement, the first such explanation of a news conference remark since he took office a year ago. No Reflection The statement said he meant no reflection on the Indochinese who are combating communism.

It said he referred to "a number of people in Indochina who have not committed themselves to the struggle." The President's comments came against a backdrop of reports that RECORD -HERALD WISCONSIN: Partly cloudy tonight, Friday mostly cloudy with occasional light snow north and east. No 1m- portant temperature changes. Provisional All -German Regime Including Reds Demanded by Molotov But Big 3 Write Off Hope Of Settling Reich Issue BERLIN (P--Soviet demanded tonight that the provisional all to handle national elections ed nation. Britons Get Russ Contract Offer MOSCOW The Russian government today offered to place contracts worth four hundred million pounds sterling 000) with British industries for delivery from 1955 to 1957. This offer was transmitted in a memorandum handed by Ivan G.

Kabanov, the Soviet minister of foreign trade, to a delegation of 32 British private business men who are visiting Moscow. The offer concerned a large variety of equipment including tankers, small cargo ships, industrial plant equipment, small electric power stations as well as railroad equipment, floating docks, fish carriers and steam boilers. Accompanying the memorandum the Russians handed over a detailed breakdown of equipment they said they could use. This was the biggest gesture yet announced by the government in its widely publicized campaign offering to revive East-West trade. At practically the same time, an Argentine technical mission spokesman told a news conference that Soviet-Argentine trade is expanding and that a new and bigger trade agreement was expected to be negotiated for next year.

The mission has been here for the past five weeks select machinery and equipment be purchased under to a Soviet-Argentine trade agreement. Only Adult Bus Fares Changed The only fare change authorized the Wausau Transit Lines Inc. by the Wisconsin Public Service Commission ruling of yesterday was an increase in the cost of adult here and the elimination of tokens at Merrill, according to details of the order received by the bus firm in the mail today. Local adult tokens will be two for 25 cents when en the new schedule goes in effect. The firm is required to give the public and the commission five days notice before the increase takes effect.

Presently, adult tokens sell three for 35 cents here. There will be no changes in the children's or students' fares here, or in the fares between Wausau and Schofield or Rothschild. At Merrill, the cash rate will be 15 cents and the tokens, currently selling three for 35 cents, will be discarded. Nation Paid Big Price In Accidents During 1953 CHICAGO (P--This is the mendous price the nation paid for accidents in 1953: Killed: 95,000. Injured: 9,600,000.

The cost: $9,100,000,000. The bill was added up today by the National Safety Council. It noted that the 1953 accident death toll was 1,000 below the 1952 total. But it also noted that it was more than three times as great as the toll of American dead during the entire Korean War. The motor vehicle held its place as the No.

1 accident killer. Trafdeaths numbered 38,300. That ties a gain of 300 or 1 per cent over 1952. The traffic total was the third largest in history, exceeded only in 1937 and 1941. Fatalities in home accidents numbered 28,000, a decline of 1,000.

Accidental deaths at work were unchanged at 15,000. Can't Long Endure Ned H. Dearborn, president of the council, said, "No civilized nation, can disgraceful long endure waste this of tragic manpower and resources from accidents that are There were some relatively bright spots in the otherwise grim array of statistics. The 1953 death rate for accidents of all types was 60 per WEATHER Changes Local Application To UHF Channel thirds vote. Plans Night Session Knowland said he planned to hold a night session tonight, but would not estimate how late it might run.

The weeks of maneuvering have split the Senate four ways and raised doubts in the minds of some senators that any constitutional amendment will actually come from the proposal by Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) to limit the scope of treaties and to provide! for congressional regulation of international agreements. other, George (D-Ga), leader of one of the largest of four blocs with conflicting ideas, said the chances are "very good" that Bricker's proposal, strongly opposed by President Eisenhower, will die in the Senate or go back on a committee shelf. Pushes for Vote However, Knowland, captaining an administration group, pushed for a vote on a series of revisions to the Bricker resolution which had been cleared by the Wihte House. Bricker himself led a grouping, which found the Knowland amendments acceptable as far as they went, but still held out for additional broadened congressional over treaties and presiauthority, agreements which now are not subject to Senate ratification, as treaties are.

Sen. Kefauver (D Tenn) emerged as the chief of a group generally opposed to enacting any constitutional amendment now. Although it numbered only 15 to 20 senators, the group's chances of ultimate success looked bright because those who urge changing the Constitution couldn't agree among themselves. Approval by two thirds of those voting would be needed to pass a constitutional amendment proposal in the Senate. However, modifications to the amendment could be voted by a simple majority.

Long Study Knowland told the Senate Wednesday night the changes he had offered to Bricker's amendment were the result of long study and had not just been "grabbed out of the air." He said that as soon as there was a break in Senate debate he would call up the first of the series of administration amendments for vote. It was relatively noncontroversial and its adoption seemed likely. A test on the next amendment Knowland had in line could show how deep is the split in the Senate. At one stage when compromise prospects were brighter this proposal had been approved by both the White House and Bricker and acquiesced in by George. But the near-compromise did not hold.

This amendment would strike Alaska Bill OK'd By Senate Group WASHINGTON (P)-The Senate Interior Committee voted 14-1 today to approve a bill to admit Alaska to statehood. Chairman Butler (R-Neb) told reporters the official report will be delayed for a few days to ine corporate amendments the bill determined by the full committee today. As soon as those amendments can he fitted into the legislation, he said, the Alaska bill will go on the Senate calendar along with the Hawaii statehood bill which was approved by the committee last week. Committee members said the only vote against the bill was that of Sen. Long (D-La.) However, several committee members, including Chairman Butler, reserved the right to oppose the bill when it reaches the Senate floor.

Sen. Cordon (R-Ore), chairman of a subcommittee which has been working on the Alaska bill for two weeks, declined to discuss the nature of amendments ordered today. He said merely that their purpose was to provide "an economically sound base for Alaska under statehood." Cong. Alvin E. 0'Konski, Mercer, applied to the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday to change his application for a local television station to specify Channel 16 in the UHF range instead of Channel 7 in the range, according to an Associated Press report received today from Washington, D.C.

0'Konski is unopposed for Channel 16. There are two applicants now for Channel 7. One is Wisconsin Valley Television an organization of six Wisconsin Valley newspapers, including the Record-Herald. The other is WSAU Inc. In a recent statement, John C.

Sturtevant, president of Wisconsin Valley Television Corp. and publisher of the Record-Herald, said he believed the FCC hearing to determine the successful applicant for Channel 7 would be held in Washington sometime during the latter part of March. Foresees Quick Approval Reached by telephone Washington today, Cong. 0'Konski told. the Record-Herald that he thought his application would "probably be approved next week" by the FCC.

He said that he was aiming to have his television station on the air here by July 1. The congressman, who presently operates radio stations WOSA, Wausau, and WLIN, Merrill, 1 the latter FM station, said that he expected that his Channel 16 station here would cover an area up to 40 to 45 miles from the city. Although UHF television does not carry as far as VHF, he said he expected to get this coverage through placing his antenna on Rib Mountain. Asked if he anticipated network affiliation, the congressman said he planned to concentrate on local, live programs, because he did not intend to ask local sponsors to finance and support network programs. Studio and Offices in Wausau The studio and offices of the TV station will be in Wausau and will be combined with the studios and offices of the radio stations, but 0'Konski did not disclose the site.

He said, however, that he expected to open the radio studios here in the near future, since he has only a special and temporary authorization, expiring March 25, to keep the WOSA studio at Merrill, where he began his radio operations. Although some of the newer TV receiving sets are equipped to receive UHF signals, most of the sets which have been sold in the will require a special "slug" installed in order to receive Channel 16. Many of the TV stations currently on the air are in the VHF range. Color television is possible in the UHF range, but 0'Konski said he had no plans for considering this. In changing his TV application, he said he felt the city will be better off with more than one TV station, just as he believes the city is better off with more than one radio station.

Cut More Time Off Stunt Night (Pictures on Page 4, 5, 17) Stunt Night rolled successfully through its third performance last night in the Senior High School uditorium, with these show running eight minutes than Tuesday night's show performance. has two now more performances to go, winding up tomorrow night, at which time the decision of the 28 judges, 14 men and 14 women, will be announced. Women judges will pass their final word on the 14 stunts tonight, while the men judges will view the wind-up performance tomorrow night. In all, about 35 minutes has been chopped off the opening night show, which ran until nearly 11 o'clock. The curtain closed on the last stunt at about 10:23 o'clock last night.

None of the 14 stunts has run overtime: as yet, according to the chief however, timer, have George come within Gease. a Some, couple time of limit. seconds Those of the running minute time are penalized in the judging. Meat Dealers Plan Banquet, Installation The annual banquet of the Wausau Retail Meat Dealers Association will be held at the Hotel Wausau Monday evening at 7:15 o'clock, when the association's new officers will be installed by Circuit Judge Gerald J. Boileau, who is also scheduled to give a brief address.

Entertainment will include an 1 act by the Franklin School Fun Band, directed by A. C. Kiefer, principal of Franklin School. About 75 will attend. Robert Miller is the newly elected president of the association, and succeeds Edward G.

Kraft. Other association officers to be installed Erick G. Radandt, vice president: Lawrence Sippl, secretary: land Walter M. Warosh, treasurer. Minister V.

M. Molotov Four get on with forming a including Communists achieve unity for the divid- APL DOG RUNS WILD--This big mongrel dog chews the bars of a cage into which it was placed in the Animal Welfare League shelter after biting at least 10 persons on the south side of Chicago. Six police squads cornered the dog in an alley after it had run amuck. The dog died shortly after this picture was taken and was said to have shown symptoms of rabies. Chicago and much of southern Cook County is under a rabies quarantine requiring that dogs be confined or muzzled and leashed.

Says Farm Income Sag Largely Past WASHINGTON said today that the long sag hind us" and called on Congress hower's "middle-of-the-road" Benson told the Senate-House Economic Committee, which is exploring measures to avert recession, that greater consumption of farm products under flexible and gradually lowered price supports would bolster farmers' income. "The road to economic growth is through expanded production production that finds its way into consumption and not into Benson declared. Even though price support level for basic crops under the administration proposals would be governed by supply, rather than by high and government supports, the support price would be close to present levels, Benson pre- dicted. Philosophy of Scarcity "The Congress should not return to the philosophy of scarcity that was tried and found wanting in the 1930s," Benson said. "The latest price report of the department issued last Friday showed a widespread improvement, averaging 4 per cent from mid- to mid-January, Benson told the legislators.

"There is much reason to believe that the agricultural price adjustment to peacetime conditions is largely behind us. "For 1954, we believe that agricultural prices and agricultural incomes will be maintained fairly close to those of 1953." Meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey kept alive the issue Democrats have been hammering on--whether individual taxpayers are getting enough consideration in the proposed tax changes. Strictly Relief Humphrey, who defended administration-backed proposal before the committee Tuesday, declared Wednesday night on an NBC radio program that "strictly relief provisions for individuals" would amount to about 600 million dollars of the tax reduction envisaged. He said that if the tax cuts that went into effect Jan. 1 were considered together with those proposed, "strictly individual relief will be about three fourths and about one fourth of the relief will be to stimulate business." No Harm Asked whether he thought it was unethical to speak of recession in connection with current business conditions, he said, "I don't think it does a bit of harm to discuss what business conditions are." President Eisenhower took somewhat the same line Wednesday in a letter to CIO President Walter Reuther.

He wrote that an "unshakable attitude in the capacity of the American economy for continued growth" is essential. He said he felt sure the country could go through what he called "the transition now under way" without serious trouble. The Molotov plan called for: 1. Formation of the provisional government by the parliaments of the East and West German regimes, including the wide participation of the Communist "mass organizations" such as the youth, the women, the farmers' league and the Red-run unions. 2.

Preparation and holding of all German elections by this provisional government. 3. Arranging for the all-German government to represent the split nation during the preparation of the peace treaty and in all international bodies. 4. Immediate action by the rival governments now to organize a joint meeting on procedure.

5. Action by the four powers to prevent "any interference or pressure by foreign powers during the all-German elections." But the Western foreign ministers today wrote off the possibility of settling the German question at the current Big Four conference and, as one source put it, began trying to "screen out the smaller potatoes." Still pending in this category were the long-deadlocked Austrian independence treaty, possible conferences with Communist China about peace in Asia and perhaps further talks between Molotov and U. S. Secretary of State Dulles on President Eisenhower's proposal for an atomic pool for peace. A possible outcome also was simple mechanism for building up a larger exchange of goods between West and East Germany, a trade now largely throttled by political differences despite mu- -Secretary of Agriculture Benson in farm income "is largely beto adopt President Eisenfarm program.

Loveland Braces for Valentine Mail Rush LOVELAND, Colo. (P)-Postmaster E. M. Ivers and his assistants in this "sweetheart of the nation are bracing the great rush of mail which hits here each year about this time. The practice of sending valentines to the Loveland post office for remailing started in 1947 and has become an annual practice for sweethearts throughout the world.

Last year about 60,000 valentines were received from all 48 states and seven foreign countries. A special crimson ink cachet is applied to remailed valentines. The cachet is altered each year. Today's Chuckle A little boy had been to Sunday school for the first time, and when asked what they did, he said: "Everybody sang." did they sing?" "I don't know what the rest of them sang. I sang 'Casey Jones'." tual needs.

Fruitless Talk French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault asked the Big Four meeting today quit dealing with details and "start a movement which will permit us to remedy the evils we now deplore." Bidault's plea was inspired by two days of crossfire between Molotov and the Western Big Three in which the discussion covered the whole field of world problems without nailing down agreement of thought on a single one. Opens Session The French diplomat opened today's session, the tenth, and tried tc point out to Molotov all the errors he thought the Russian was making in his interpretation of Western motives on German unification. Attacking the whole problem raised by the nine-year-old division of Germany, Bidault said: "If we wish to correct certain aspects of this situation we must first decide what they are, then propose remedies." The Frenchman spearheaded the Western Big Three's renewed effort to smoke out the Russian's real objectives in the parley. They brushed aside as a trick his proposal for a plebiscite to decide whether the Germans should conclude a peace treaty with the Big Four or an alliance with the West. One Western informant said the Big Four ministers probably would spend the balance of this week in more fruitless talk on Germany, then move on to Austria.

The Westerners figured the par ley, after nine days of talking, likely would go on for another 13 or 20. One wide-open indication of the end to Western hopes for any major German settlement came Wednesday night when Russia's junior partner, East German Pre mier Otto Grotewohl, seconded Molotov's latest gimmick for Ger many. Inside the Russian Embassy in East Berlin, Molotov had proposed to the Western Ministers that a plebiscite be held to let the Germans in both East and West say whether they wanted an immediate peace treaty neutralizing them or wanted Germany to join the projected West European armythe European Defense Community. France, bearing the brunt of the battle for the free world, is seeking 400 or more B26 attack bomband mechanics to keep flying. There also were reports from authoritative sources least a dozen C119 flying Boxcars that at had been lent by the United States to the French in Indochina.

American Pilots In Hong Kong yesterday Civil Air Transport, an American-owned airline which grew out of the volunteer Flying Tigers of China fame announced some of its American pilots, under contract with the French, would fly the a C119s. There was neither denial nor confirmation from the President, the Pentagon and the State Department on reports that some 125 U.S. Air Force technicians are at work in Indochina. These 125, it was said, are members of the Military Aid Assistance Group (MAAG) stationed there. population.

That was the lowest on record. Nevertheless, one out of every 16 persons in the United States suffered a disabling injury last year. The 38,300 traffic deaths were recorded during a year when the number of vehicles on the road and the number of miles they traveled reached an all-time high. Lowest Rate Thus, the death rate per 100 million vehicle miles was estimated at 7-the lowest rate on record. Traffic accidents resulted in about 1,350,000 nonfatal injuries.

Falls brought death to 20,200 persons, 1 per cent fewer than in 1952. Burns cost 6,400 lives, a 4 per cent decrease. Firearms fatalities rose 4 per cent to 2,450. Drownings were unchanged at 6,800. Accidental deaths showed an increase among the new generation -victims 5 to 24 years old.

There was no change in the 25 to 44 age bracket. Decreases were shown for children under 5 and adults over 45. The estimated economic loss of $9,100,000,000 covers both fatal and nonfatal accidents. It includes wage losses, medical expenses, insurance costs, production delays, damage to equipment and property. BIBLE TEXT Yet in this thing, ye did not believe the Lord your 1:32..